Sunday, October 9, 2011

Happy October!

Good evening!

It's so fun looking back and reflecting on our week as I construct these blogs.  It's really exciting to see all the different ideas that we all have!

This weeks' weather was quite exciting for our class.  We discussed a bit about the winds we were feeling and how it affects our surroundings.  We even made connections with this months Songs and Poems that deal with the wind and leaves falling!  On our Rainy Recess days together, we enjoyed working on puzzles, new group games, and reading together.




A lot of us are practicing sounding out words and becoming writers. We've really been getting good at writing messages to new friends and family members.  Also, we are still getting to know each other, so some friends have started administering surveys in class.  Questions vary from what kind of pet do they have, to what letters do they have in their names.  We're gathering lots of information!



A special thank you to Keighley and her family for bringing a new tool into our class to share with us. We are always trying to practice getting good at working with friends, so these new Sight Word tools were a great way for us to stick to that plan.  Friends worked together as they sounded out words they recognized and spelled out words that they were less sure of.



We ended our week with a new investigation:  How does the nose work?  What questions do you have about the nose?  Some of our questions were answered after we watched a video about the nose.  Check it out!  

http://youtu.be/WavjbJhiRAE

We did Journal/Experiment Switch and wrote about our ideas and questions about the nose.  Then we even got to test our own noses with a group exercise facilitated by Salem's mom, Natasha.  Friends were asked to sniff the contents inside of a paper bag and try to identify what was inside, and then match it with the corresponding picture.





I hope you had a lovely weekend.  Thanks for stopping by and for all of your support!

Love, Gaby

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